Zachary Quinto
Zachary Quinto
Zachary John Quintois an American actor and film producer. He is best known for his roles as Sylar on the science fiction drama series Heroes, Spock in the reboot Star Trekand its sequels Star Trek Into Darknessand Star Trek Beyond, as well as his Emmy nominated performance in American Horror Story: Asylum. He also appeared in smaller roles on television series such as So NoTORIous, The Slap, and 24...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth2 June 1977
CityPittsburgh, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Zachary Quinto quotes about
I was definitely an extroverted personality at a young age and theater was an outlet for me to channel that energy.
[Edward Snowden and his team] they're great characters. They're fascinating people. They were in an extraordinary situation.
Honestly, people told me to. It was weird, I graduated from school, I never thought I'd live in L.A. and I always wanted to be to New York. I assumed that would be my trajectory - that romantic ideal of moving there and doing plays Off-Broadway and being scrappy about it. Then we did a showcase in New York and a showcase in L.A., and for whatever reason the response that I generated in L.A. was significantly more enthusiastic.
While we were shooting the movie, we shot in the actual hotel in Hong Kong where it all went down, the Mira Hotel. Laura Poitras was coming to Hong Kong to do a screening of Citizenfour, and she ended up staying at the Mira Hotel. It was her first time back in Hong Kong, and I ran into her in the elevator. Literally I had just finished shooting one day, and I came back to the hotel and she was in the elevator.
I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
But when I found out that Jamey Rodemeyer had made an It Gets Better video only months before taking his own life, I felt indescribable despair.
We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.
I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.